Bloody Mary is a both a delicious vodka cocktail and a scary ghost that appears in a mirror
when her name is called three times.
Sometimes she curses people, sometimes she strangles them, sometimes she drinks their
blood and sometimes she simply steals their soul.
Of course, she is just a spooky story passed by kids and teens who want to freak each other
out…but what if she wasn’t?
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions – the channel that looks to answer
a wide variety of questions, be they historical, scientific, mythical or theoretical.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What If Bloody Mary Was Real?
Before we peer into this video, I just want to ask you guys to hit that thumbs up button
and also let me know if you believe in Bloody Mary…
I am interested to read your comments!
So the legend of spooky ol Bloody Mary seemed to originate in Britain in the 1700s.
Sometimes she is associated with Mary Tudor, Queen of England, but often she is a ghoul
of her very own being.
There are variants surrounding the ritual to invoke her spirit.
In the legends early days, young women would try and walk backwards up a stairs holding
a hand mirror and a candle.
When they got to the top they were supposed to be able to see their husbands face, unless
they saw a skull, which meant they would die before they had the chance to marry.
In more modern times kids and teens would simply chant her name to summon the ghost.
This is usually done in a dark room, lit only by candlelight as a person repeatedly chants
Bloody Mary into a mirror.
After some time, she would then appear as a witch or a corpse in the reflection.
Some say they simply see the apparition, others claim she will harm you in some way.
So, what if she was real?
Well, firstly, like, mate….don’t summon her.
Honey only seems to come when ritualistically summoned.
Pop those candles away and maybe don’t go chanting into those mirrors?
It seems simple, right?
Well perhaps if Bloody Mary was real and all summoning her took was a chant, some kindles
and a mirror, we might all be a bit more wary around reflective surfaces?
In some cultures, they believe the dead are able to see us through mirrors, and indeed
mirrors have long since been the subject of superstitions – for example the seven years
bad luck rule for breaking one.
Maybe, if Bloody Mary were real, we may find a way to summon more spirits using a good
old mirror and candle.
Who knows who else we could talk to over the bathroom sink.
Also, if Bloody Mary were real in the original folklore sense, what hold does she have over
our husbands?
How does she know what they look like?
What if you want a wife?
If Mary has the power to curse us, then does that mean other people do too?
Would this mean other ghosts and ghouls are real?
If I was in charge of a country and Bloody Mary was real, I would ban the summoning…and
if that didn’t work…maybe I’d ban mirrors…and perhaps this would encourage a new area of
anti vanity….
Although I guess we could use our phone cameras to check or appearance…but wait…could
Bloody Mary get at us through our phones too?
I bet nobody has tried that yet because If so, could her ghost go like…actually viral?
Could she start haunting tech…would it be like a 2018 episode of buffy the vampire slayer
were a person unwittingly uploads a ghoul to the internet?
Can we control alt delete Mary?
All of this What If’s…but in some versions of the tale, bloody Mary WAS real, she was
the Mary the 1st Queen of England, a woman with a very sad history of lovelessness and
neglect.
Mary the first was the child of Catherine of Aragon.
She saw her father divorce her mother because she hadn’t produced a male heir, she saw
her stepmother cruely smear her name and rumour has it, she suffered from awful menstrual
cramps.
Mary’s only shortfalling seemed to be the fact she was female.
Later,s he disposed of her competition for the crown and began brutally trying to reform
the British church, garnering her the nickname Bloody Mary.
The woman entered into a marriage with a man who didn’t love her and had a false pregnancy…
perhaps tying up the real historical figure with the folklore that seems to have roots
in femininity, marriage, loss, sadness and vengeance.
She was very real…and it would be quite something if her scorn extended nearly 500
years into the future!
Many people swear they have seen Bloody Mary by looking in the mirror, but so far as we
know, ghosts aren’t real so how can we explain this?
Well… there is scientific reasoning behind the phenomena.
It is something that psychologists call the Strange-face illusion.
Basically, staring into a mirror for a long time can cause a person to hallucinate.
As the eyes struggle to deal with the intensity of prolonged staring, the brain begins to
visualise things that aren’t there.
It can cause the face to appear to melt or see other strange faces we don’t recognise
to be ourselves.
Other explanations include hysteria and self hypnosis, which also make sense.
Bloody Mary might not be real, but our brains are powerful enough to invent her in our own
minds!
So guys, what do you think would happen if Bloody Mary was real?
Who is she?
What is her story?
Is she indeed the jilted former queen of England, or is she the devil incarnate?
Let me know in the comments section down below.
For now, thanks for tuning in to this episode of Life’s Biggest Questions, I am your host
Rebecca Felgate – if you want to keep up with me there is a link to my channel in the
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I’ll catch you in the next video, but until then…stay away from the candle and mirror
combination, maybe don’t involve any murderous spirits just in case…..and of course, never
ever stop questioning.